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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Neo-colonial"”.
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Frontlines of crisis, forefront of change : climate justice as an intervention into (neo)colonial climate action narratives and practices
… in this thesis I highlight the on-going colonial violence involved in both extractive industry and the mainstream climate action movements of the Global North. I look at the stories we tell about climate change and how they legitimize a colonial structuring of power: from mainstream media …
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Externalised Detention in Libya and Morocco: Neo-colonial Power Relations with Italy and Spain and the Production of Exploitation Economies
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αποτελεί μια κριτική εξέταση των στρατηγικών εξωτερίκευσης της μεταναστευτικής πολιτικής της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης προς τις χώρες της Βόρειας Αφρικής, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην ανάθεση ελέγχου της μετανάστευσης από την Ιταλία και την Ισπανία στη Λιβύη και το Μαρόκο. …
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Neo-colonial elitism and its influence in Kenya: A case study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's petals of blood, Devil on the cross and Matigari
… an analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s portrayal of neo-colonial elitism and its influence in Kenya in his postcolonial novels, Petals of Blood (1977), Devil on the Cross (1982a) and Matigari (1989). The study employed a content analysis approach where the three novels were read and studied in depth …
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The political consequences of uneven development in Sudan : an analysis of political struggles, with special reference to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA)
… imposed on the Sudanese people by Anglo-Egyptian Colonialism have been continued and expanded by the neo-colonial state under the Sectarian Jallaba leaders who inherited both political and economic power, after political independence.All peaceful demands for socio-economic and political equality …
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Reconstituting empire in the decolonisation era: taxation sovereignty and the development of the British virgin islands as a dependent tax haven
… This thesis was built on an account of post-colonial dependency through a structural lens of a reconstituting empire and neo-colonial imperialism in the development of the British Virgin Islands in two key phases. First, the political developments of the 1950 independence decade in the …
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Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography
… of ethnographic research methods relies on neo-colonial and exploitative practices to create knowledge and data. This thesis reinserts the work of many researchers of color identifying that the discipline’s antecedents practiced anti-racist, anti-colonial research methods. Through critical …
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Indigenous peoples and the right to culture : an international law analysis
In the post or neo-colonial era, the question of fair and equitable treatment of indigenous peoples remains a subject of international political and legal discourse. Efforts have been made to study ways of promoting and protecting indigenous rights and to develop international norms for the …
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The Ambivalence of Altruism: White Canadian Women in International Development in East Africa
… caught between these altruistic ideals and the (neo)colonial and racial inequalities that make up the foundation of the development industry. This dissertation extends earlier works to more fully and empirically understand the subject position of development workers and how development workers …
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From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism: The British Politics of Nationalist Violence in Cyprus
… is directly tied to the impact of former colonial powers on newly independent postcolonial states. This thesis analyzes the relationship between nationalist violence, British colonial and neo-colonial policies, and Cyprus' geostrategic location within the imperialist world system. By …
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Thinking Security: A Reflectivist Approach to France's Security Policy-Making in sub-Saharan Africa
… in Africa. Despite efforts to normalise its post-colonial relationship and considerable downsizing of its permanent military presence, France remains a sought-after actor in solving African security problems. Notwithstanding French decision-makers repeated promises that the gendarme of Africa …
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Pulling back the curtain : revealing the production of performance in the Hawaiian Islands
… harbor activity rather than staging no Hawaii's (neo)-colonial grand narrative as a sexualized as an instrument to reflect the relationship between pr den mechanics of calculated and market-oriented production and the outward appearance of contrived reality. Relationships between audience, stage, …
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'A Moment of Magic': Coyote, Tricksterism, and the Role of the Shaman in Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca Novels
… as a model for self-empowerment in the face of colonial and neo-colonial violence. Tracing postcolonial theory, border studies, and contemporary discussions of trickster figures in Native cultures, this study argues that Anaya confronts both the genre expectations of the detective novel and the …
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"There is a place where the dreams live" : portrayals of the South Sea in German language tourist brochures
… a romanticising, sexist, essentially neo-colonial place image, exemplified by the patronising portrayal of local women as available objects of male sexual desire.
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South African foreign policy in Africa
… this thesis under two headings; policy towards colonial Africa (broadly, the period 1910 - 1959) and secondly, policy towards independent Africa (1960 - ). The division is by no means an absolute one. South Africa first began to feel the pressures of decolonization soon after the end of the …
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
… representations often betray an exoticist and neo-colonial discursive pattern in which things Arab figure essentially as an index for a threateningly attractive otherness. Reading the texts of Leila Sebbar's Sherazade (1982), Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees (1996), Salman Rushdie's The …
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En(tre) la maquinaria global y las distopías molares: discursividades geo-políticas y socio-comunitarias en las políticas de desarrollo de Jáchal (San Juan, Argentina). Una lectura otra desde la (de)colonialidad territorial.
… (San Juan, Argentina) y a la episteme moderno-colonial del desarrollo, en un escenario de capitalismo neo-globocolonial, tardío e inacabado, destacando el viraje del Estado hacia la faceta transnacional, y donde surgen políticas transescalares que se proponen disminuir la pobreza al tiempo que …
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Chinese Intervention in East Africa: A Comparative Case Study of The Belt and Road Initiative in Kenya and Djibouti
… is a Chinese attempt towards economic hegemony, neo-imperialism or neo-colonialism, or representative of a larger realist security threat. While these examinations suggest the project is likely not a Chinese attempt towards economic hegemony, this thesis finds support for a combination of …
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A postcolonial approach to Nepal's geopolitics, hydro-politics, and border-politics
Postcolonial approaches have challenged as parochial the conventional International Relations frames and their limited one-dimensional consideration of power. Study of Nepal as an international actor remains dominated by conventional IR that prioritises the interests and views of great powers like …
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The roles and functions of private security companies in UN Peace Missions - a critical analysis
… in terms of increased militarization, a neo-colonial facet, and a gradual move towards privatized peacekeeping.
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The Political Economy of Conflict in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire: Foreign Economic Intervention and the Spatial Distribution of Violent Conflict
… to foreign economic intervention in the colonial and post-colonial period and focusing specifically on the impacts of structural adjustment programs on processes of conflict and conflict diffusion. Based on the findings of this paper, conflict in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire …
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